About the Community Board
The Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board holds regular meetings that you’re welcome to attend. Anyone can ask to speak to the Community Board about a local issue, activity or project.
The Community Board's main roles are to:
- Represent and act as an advocate for the interests of our community.
- Consider and report on all matters referred to us by the council, or any matter of interest to the board.
- Maintain an overview of services provided by the council within the community.
- Communicate with community organisations and special interest groups within the community
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Local events
Saturday 5 July 2025 05:30 am
Winter Fireworks Spectacular
Where:
Marine Parade
New Brighton
Proudly produced by Christchurch City Council, Winter Fireworks Spectacular delivers a cracker fireworks display set to your favourite bangers celebrating all things 'Fire and Ice' including Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice and Light My Fire from The Doors.
A huge thanks to Firework Professionals for putting on the show and to Crowne Plaza for their support of the Winter Fireworks Spectacular.
A range of food vendors offering a variety of dinner, snack and drink options will be located at the carpark north of the Pier on Marine Parade from 5.30pm to 8pm. The event base will also be buzzing with on-theme entertainment.
The Winter Fireworks Spectacular fireworks display will commence at approximately 7.30pm.
If bad weather forces the postponement of the fireworks, it will be announced here and on the What's On Facebook/Instagram page. The call to cancel may not be made until just before the fireworks start at 7.30pm. The postponement date is Sunday 6 July.
Sunday 6 July 2025 09:00 am
Climate Action Working Bee
Can you spare some time and come and help us?
Bring your gloves and some tools.
Biscuits tea and coffee provided to keep you going.
180 Avonside Drive, Avonside, Christchurch 8061.
Saturday 12 July 2025 10:00 am
Edible Streets Nursery and Food Forest Hub
Join Edible Streets’ Saturday Nursery Club!
Looking for a family-friendly activity where you can learn, grow, and give back? Come along to our fortnightly Saturday Nursery Club in Wainoni at the Climate Action Campus!
What We Do:
Learn how to propagate edible plants, beneficial flowers, and natives
Take home free plants as a volunteer perk!
Help grow food forest plants for community projects
Connect with like-minded people in a relaxed, hands-on environment
About Edible Streets
We run an Edible Nursery that propagates:
Fruit trees
Beneficial flowers
Berries
Vegetables for our Edible Berms project Food forest plants
We also donate plants to community groups for koha, helping to build a food-secure, resilient future—one seedling at a time!
Interested?
Come along to our next Saturday Nursery Club and get your hands in the soil! Bring the kids, bring your curiosity, and let’s grow together. 
Location: 36 Cowlishaw Street, Avonside, Climate Action Campus
Contact us:o Ediblestreetsnz@gmail.com See less
Sunday 13 July 2025 10:00 am
Brooker Reserve Community Planting Event
Please join us for our second planting event of 2025. This year we will be looking to expand our planting to the other side of Brooker Ave next to Corser Stream.
Please bring some gloves and a planting spade if you have one. The planting will be followed by a BBQ provided by the CCC Ranger Team.
Where:
17 Brooker Avenue, Burwood, Christchurch 8083
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Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board 9 June 2025
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Community Board Decisions
Decisions made at the 9 June 2025 Community Board Meeting
Every month the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board meets and makes decisions on behalf of the community. Our last meeting was on the 12 May 2025 and the following decisions were made.
The next Community Board meeting takes place on 7 July 2025 at 4:30pm in the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board Room on the corner of Union and Beresford Streets.
Reports considered and decisions made
A summary of the reports that were considered (in the order taken) and the decisions made during this Community Board meeting follows. For the full detail, please see the minutes at the bottom of the page.
Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00054 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change Part C That the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board: 1. Receives the information in the Tree Planting in Arden Reserve Report. 2. Notes that the decision in this report is assessed as low significance based on the Christchurch City Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy. 3. Approves the planting of trees within Arden Park in alignment with the planting plan. |
Part C That the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board: 1. Receives the information in the Pages Road near Breezes Road Timed Parking Restrictions Report. 2. Notes that the decision in this report is assessed as low significance based on the Christchurch City Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy. 3. Revokes any previous resolutions pertaining to traffic controls made pursuant to any bylaw to the extent that they are in conflict with the parking or stopping restrictions described in resolutions 4-6 below. 4. Approves that in accordance with Clause 7 of the Christchurch City Council Traffic and Parking Bylaw 2017, that the stopping of vehicles be prohibited at any time on the north side of Pages Road, commencing at a point 60 metres west of its intersection with Breezes Road and extending in a west direction for a distance of 4 metres. This is detailed in Attachment A to the report on the meeting agenda (Plan TG150185). 5. Approves that the parking of all vehicles be restricted to a maximum period of 60 minutes, in accordance with Clause 8 of the Christchurch City Council Traffic and Parking Bylaw 2017 on the north side of Pages Road, commencing at a point 68 metres west of its intersection with Breezes Road and extending in a westward direction for a distance of 42 metres. This is detailed in Attachment A to the report on the meeting agenda (Plan TG150185). 6. Approves that in accordance with Clause 7 of the Christchurch City Council Traffic and Parking Bylaw 2017, that the stopping of vehicles be prohibited at any time on the west side of Breezes Road, commencing at a point 51 metres north of its intersection with Pages Road and extending in a north direction for a distance of 3 metres. This is detailed in Attachment A to the report on the meeting agenda (Plan TG150185). 7. Approves that these resolutions take effect when parking signage and/or road markings that evidence the restrictions described in this staff report are in place (or removed in the case of revocations). |
Proposed amendment moved by Jo Zervos and seconded by Kelly Barber 4. Approves all kerb alignments, paths, islands, road surface treatments, traffic calming features and road markings on Marine Parade as detailed on plan(s) TP363103, sheet(s) 1, and 2, dated 13/05/2025, and attached to the Agenda report as Attachment A excluding the speed hump at the entrance to the ramp. Following debate and the vote put to the meeting, the amendment was declared lost. | |
| Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00056 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change | Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00056 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change |
Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00058 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change Part C That the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board: 1. Receives the information in the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 2024-25 Discretionary Response Fund Application - Burwood Park Tennis Club Incorporated Report. 2. Notes that the decisions in this report are assessed as low significance based on the Christchurch City Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy. 3. Approves a grant of $1,000 from its 2024/25 Discretionary Response Fund to Burwood Park Tennis Club Incorporated towards a new access gate. |
Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00059 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change
Part C
That the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board:
1. Receives the information in the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board – Community Service and Youth Service Awards 2025 Report.
2. Notes that the decision in this report is assessed as low significance based on the Christchurch City Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy.
3. Confer Community Service Awards on the nominees listed on the Summary of Nominations 2025 (separately circulated).
4. Delegate authority to the Board Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson to accept any late applications received from other Community Boards.
5. Have the names of successful nominees released after the Board's Community Service Awards 2025 function. Names of unsuccessful nominees will be kept confidential.
Part C
That the Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board:
1. Receives the information in the Standing Orders Amendment - Notices of Motion Report.
2. Notes that the decision in this report is assessed as low significance based on the Christchurch City Council’s Significance and Engagement Policy.
3. Revokes Standing Order 22.1 and 19.3, and replaces it with the following wording, in order to amend the timeframe for a notice of motion to be delivered to the Chief Executive:
a. 22.1 Notice of intended motion to be in writing
Notice of intended motions must be in writing signed by the mover, stating the meeting at which it is proposed that the intended motion be considered, and must be delivered to the Chief Executive at least 10 clear working days before such meeting, or a shorter time at the discretion of the Chief Executive. [Notice of an intended motion can be sent via email and include the scanned electronic signature of the mover.]
Once the motion is received and accepted by the Chief Executive, he or she must give members notice in writing of the intended notice of motion at least 2 clear working days before the date of the meeting at which it will be considered.
b. 19.3 Requirement to give notice
A member must give notice to the Chief Executive at least 10 clear working days before the meeting, or a shorter time at the discretion of the Chief Executive, at which it is proposed to consider the motion. The notice is to be signed by not less than one third of the members including vacancies. Notice can be sent via email and include the scanned electronic signatures of members. If the notice of motion is lost, no similar notice of motion which is substantially the same in purpose and effect may be accepted within the next six months.
Jo Zervos/Celeste Donovan Carried
Alex Hewison requested that his abstention be recorded.
Community Board Resolved CCBCC/2025/00061 Original Officer Recommendation accepted without change
Part C
That Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board:
1. Receive the information in the 2025 SuperLocal Conference - Elected Members' Attendance Report.
2. Approve Jackie Simons attendance to the Local Government New Zealand conference in Christchurch from 16-17 July 2025.
Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood Community Board 9 June 2025
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Meet your community board
Chairperson
Community Board member for the Linwood Ward
021 184 1072
Paul.McMahon@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Deputy Chairperson
Community Board member for the Linwood Ward
027 4732795
Jackie.Simons@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Community Board member for the Burwood Ward
027 727 6111
tim.baker1@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Councillor for Burwood Ward
021 086 76195
kelly.barber@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73016, Christchurch 8154
Councillor for Coastal Ward
021 289 9880
celeste.donovan@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73016, Christchurch
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Community Board member for the Coastal Ward
027 277 9810
Alex.Hewison@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Councillor for Linwood Ward
021 799 321
yani.johanson@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73016, Christchurch 8154
Community Board member for the Burwood Ward
027 302 3812
Greg.Mitchell@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Community Board member for the Coastal Ward
021 077 6604
Jo.Zervos@ccc.govt.nz
PO Box 73023, Christchurch 8154
Your local Community Governance Team
| Chris Turner-Bullock | Manager Community Governance | 03 941 8233 | christopher.turner@ccc.govt.nz |
| Cindy Sheppard | Community Board Advisor | 03 941 6547 | cindy.sheppard@ccc.govt.nz |
| Emily Toase | Community Development Advisor | 03 941 5216 | emily.toase@ccc.govt.nz |
| Sam Savage | Community Development Advisor | 03 941 6889 | sam.savage@ccc.govt.nz |
| Rory Crawford | Community Development Advisor | 03 941 7069 | rory.crawford@ccc.govt.nz |
| Jacqui Miller | Community Recreation Advisor | 03 941 5333 | jacqui.miller@ccc.govt.nz |
| Tim Samson | Support Officer | 03 941 7988 | timothy.samson@ccc.govt.nz |
